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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Memphis, TN

April 29, 20264 counties in Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2026, 4:28 AM CDT for 4 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 29, 2026, 4:28 AM CDT (09:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2026, 5:15 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Lafayette County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Union County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 265 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1602 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 720 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 467 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.6
Supercell composite: 24.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 29, 12:23 AM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 12:23 AM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 29, 2:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 29, 3:39 AM CDT, 49 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 7:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Shelby	71 min
Apr 28, 8:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Shelby	5 hr
Apr 28, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	41 min
Apr 28, 9:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Fayette, Tipton	3 hr
Apr 28, 10:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Hardeman	3 hr
Apr 28, 10:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman	3 hr
Apr 28, 10:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Hardeman	3 hr
Apr 28, 11:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Chester, McNairy	2 hr
Apr 28, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy	27 min
Apr 28, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	DeSoto	19 min
Apr 28, 9:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	DeSoto, Marshall	47 min
Apr 28, 9:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	DeSoto, Tate, Tunica	5 hr
Apr 28, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	DeSoto, Marshall, Tate	49 min
Apr 28, 9:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	DeSoto	3 hr
Apr 28, 10:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Marshall	11 min
Apr 28, 10:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Marshall	3 hr
Apr 28, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Benton, Marshall, Prentiss, Tippah, Union	50 min
Apr 28, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc	45 min
Apr 28, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Lafayette, Panola, Quitman, Tunica, Yalobusha	21 min
Apr 28, 10:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lee	4 hr
Apr 28, 10:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Monroe, Pontotoc	5 hr
Apr 28, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Pontotoc, Tate, Union	53 min
Apr 28, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Monroe	40 min
Apr 28, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo and 1 more	65 min
Apr 28, 11:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Calhoun, Lafayette, Pontotoc, Tate, Union	4 hr
Apr 28, 11:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Monroe	3 hr
Apr 29, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lee, Monroe	25 min
Apr 29, 2:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Lee	113 min
Apr 29, 2:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Coahoma	37 min
Apr 29, 2:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Itawamba	20 min
Apr 29, 3:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Panola	25 min
Apr 29, 3:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lafayette, Union	36 min
Apr 29, 3:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Panola	31 min
Apr 29, 3:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Prentiss, Union	32 min
Apr 29, 4:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall, Panola	45 min
Apr 29, 5:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union	23 min
Apr 29, 5:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Prentiss, Tishomingo	34 min
Apr 29, 6:46 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Monroe	22 hr
Apr 29, 8:24 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Monroe	19 hr
Apr 29, 8:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lowndes, Monroe	4 days
Apr 28, 7:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, St. Francis	39 min
Apr 28, 8:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Mississippi, Poinsett	34 min
Apr 28, 9:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Mississippi, Poinsett	3 hr

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.